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Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Making Rubble

With a bit of time to spare over the holiday season I employed Arabiansquire to help me out in making a mess disguised as a gaming terrain project. We've been needing some generic rubble bases for a while now, and a couple of small test pieces I made last year came out OK, so time for some more...

The raw materials

The material used were:

Old CD for a base

cardboard

sand

gravel (2 different small grades)

old mosaic tiles scavenged from a vandalised artwork (not by me I must say)

white glue

mixing cup and lolly stick

The process was pretty (ie very) simple.

First glue some cardboard over the CD hole (Obviously not a step needed if you aren't using CDs)

Put some of the largest rubble material in the mixing cup, pour in a good amount of glue, mix so that everything is covered, scoop out onto the CD and arrange as desired

repeat step 2 with smaller rubble and continue until you finally use the sand

All done and ready to play. As you can see from the pictures I also added a couple of bits of sprue in. Originally they were going to be painted as mteal girders, but I later changed my mind and used brown to allow for fantasy ruins as well.